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Some Hotels Are Mandating Vaccines. Will Others Follow?

As travelers prepare for their next vacation, among the essentials to take along — like a toothbrush, wallet and phone charger — could be proof of vaccination for Covid-19, depending on where they are booked to sleep.

As coronavirus cases surge again across the country, driven by the highly contagious Delta variant, a small number of hotels in the United States have announced that they will require proof of vaccination from guests and staff.

Accommodations such as PUBLIC Hotel, Equinox Hotel and Wythe Hotel, all in New York City, Urban Cowboy Lodge in Big Indian, N.Y., a hamlet in the Catskill Mountains, and Pilgrim House in Provincetown, Mass., are among the first in the United States to announce that they will require evidence of vaccination, via a physical card or a digital verification, from their guests.

The precedent for hotels requiring vaccination is already being set beyond the

Who can vacation to Phuket? Vaccinated tourists who follow guidelines

Starting July 1, travellers can visit Phuket without quarantining for the first time since March 2020.

In Thailand’s much-talked over “sandbox” pilot plan, its major island has reopened to vaccinated tourists who are keen to abide by a laundry list of principles made to properly restart tourism amid the pandemic.

The strategy hinges on a concerted vaccination push to immunize 70% of Phuket’s population, a purpose which area authorities said they met previously this month with 74% of residents having been vaccinated.

Nearby media have questioned this figure, which stands in stark distinction to Thailand’s nationwide vaccination amount of all over 4%. But confirmed Covid scenarios have dramatically fallen in Phuket. The island recorded one-digit every day situations this 7 days, even though Thailand as a full claimed its third-highest daily situation overall — 5,406 infections — on June 27.

The “sandbox” prepare turns Phuket into a screening floor